<p>Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Why I Slapped the German Chancellor | 2018-11-01 | ||
| Princess Margaret And The War Hero | 2018-10-31 | ||
| Life With America's Black Panthers | 2018-10-30 | ||
| The KGB's Whistleblower | 2018-10-29 | ||
| The Day Nigeria Struck Oil | 2018-10-26 | ||
| When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed | 2018-10-25 | ||
| The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet | 2018-10-23 | ||
| Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize | 2018-10-22 | ||
| When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola | 2018-10-19 | ||
| The Pergau Dam Affair | 2018-10-18 | ||
| Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon | 2018-10-17 | ||
| The 1973 Oil Crisis | 2018-10-16 | ||
| Fighting Mount Etna | 2018-10-15 | ||
| Archbishop Oscar Romero | 2018-10-12 | ||
| Austria at War | 2018-10-11 | ||
| The Nazi Black Book | 2018-10-10 | ||
| Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden | 2018-10-09 | ||
| Reform of the House of Lords | 2018-10-08 | ||
| Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing | 2018-10-05 | ||
| The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary | 2018-10-04 |